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Helplines Awareness Day: Q&A with Fund Welfare Navigator Lindsay Hutton

With Helpline Awareness Day taking place on 23 February, we spoke with Lindsay Hutton, who is the Welfare Navigator Manager at the RAF Benevolent Fund. She provides her…

20 February 2025
RAF Pride

LGBTQ+ History in the RAF

To mark LGBTQ+ History Month this February, the Fund has collaborated with the RAF LGBTQ+ Network to highlight the important milestones for the RAF LGBTQ+ community.

1 February 2025
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“I can now live independently in my adapted home thanks to the Fund”

When RAF veteran Stacey Mitchell's career was cut short in November 2016 following a leg injury and subsequent leg amputation, Stacey reached out to the RAF Benevolent…

30 January 2025
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The government's Child Trust Fund: Find your lost account

We spoke to RAF Benevolent Fund Welfare Benefits Advisor, Rebecca Relph, about how to find the lost Child Trust Fund accounts for children and young people in the RAF,…

30 January 2025
George Thompson

Fund attends 80th anniversary memorial for Flt Sgt George Thompson VC

On Thursday 23 January, the RAF Benevolent Fund was honoured to contribute to a memorial event held at Kinross High School, marking 80 years since Flight Sergeant George…

29 January 2025
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King’s Colour Squadron servicemen take on loaded march for Fund

On 31 January 2025, 32 members of A Flight 63 Squadron King’s Colour Squadron will be taking part in a loaded march to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the formation…